Covid Zero bureaucrats force Labor’s Net Zero agenda

Flat White Rod Lampard Getty Images Rod Lampard 5 July 2022 7:00 AM Announcing the government’s ‘climate action’ plan, Australia’s new climate commissar, Chris Bowen, said in a speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday, ‘Being a good global citizen is not separate to Australia’s national economic interest.’ Climate-mad Australian Labor, a party renowned forContinue reading “Covid Zero bureaucrats force Labor’s Net Zero agenda”

Climate Change: a religion built on blind faith

Flat White David Archibald Getty Images David Archibald 6 July 2022 4:00 AM Australia is my ‘burned-over’ country. Not burnt out in the sense of droughts and bushfires; the term ‘burned-over district’ was used to describe parts of western New York State in the early 19th century where religious revivals would flare up, burn fiercely,Continue reading “Climate Change: a religion built on blind faith”

Pronoun badges backfire for embarrassed banks

World Steerpike Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images Steerpike 4 July 2022 4:47 PM Pride month means only one thing: the chance for corporations to embarrass themselves with the latest right-on social media stunt. This year it was the turn of Halifax, which took to Twitter last week to declare that ‘Pronouns matter’ alongside an imageContinue reading “Pronoun badges backfire for embarrassed banks”

The Country That Lost Its Memory

History Michael Connor Contributing editor Australia has amnesia. When Veronica Gorrie won two book awards she did what all literature prize-winners do here—she abused the country, kept the money, and misremembered the past: “I find it ironic that the Victorian State Government are awarding me, considering they were the ones that committed past atrocities onContinue reading “The Country That Lost Its Memory”

The jab could have killed thousands of Australians.

A senior doctor speaks out, saying COVID jab deaths could be in their thousands. George Christensen 3 hr ago Dear reader, In late 2021, when I was an Australian Member of Parliament, I had a then high-ranking hospital specialist tell me that deaths from the mRNA shots could be in their thousands in Australia. HeContinue reading “The jab could have killed thousands of Australians.”

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The Church of England is obsessed with racial self-flagellation Michael Mosbacher (Photo: Getty) Michael Mosbacher 3 July 2022 12:54 AM The Church of England has been displaying distinctly masochistic tendencies of late. The Church has previously tried to return its tainted Benin bronzes, even though their specimens were crafted 80 years after the Kingdom ofContinue reading World

Features Australia New Zealand

Some have wokeness thrust upon them New Zealand’s spiral downwards into irrationality James Allan Getty Images James Allan 2 July 2022 9:00 AM Co-governance. Partnership. The unrelenting quest to try to refashion the New Zealand Diceyan unwritten Constitution (one of the modern world’s most successful ever, as it happens) into something else never quite specified,Continue reading Features Australia New Zealand

Features Australia New Zealand

Incompetence and corruption Now rife in New Zealand Amy Brooke Getty Images Amy Brooke 2 July 2022 9:00 AM The question has long been whether basic stupidity has underpinned so much of our politicians’ and administrators’ decision-making – or something more insidious. Parliament’s Maori Affairs Select Committee, for example, is distinguished by the aggressive rudenessContinue reading Features Australia New Zealand